From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 15 00:31:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E982416A419 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:31:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8351613C442 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:31:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 41861 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2007 00:31:14 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id:Content-Type:To:From:Subject:Date:X-Mailer; b=VHT+nxt46ZtkIdxWlQiy8xbHvUAqz04PXYuFUHgUZ3CgDXArFYOLgNCYDPsqF6NOzJnpk6wBWa1EQPaToZKXfeVbg6+iDRoMrXJrr0vXSEcrjbycXGIeIrfsG2B3wMrXkGBzpwK0yXuqYnprLg03oSa2Z0H8tAv6JeaeVzyvAoA= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2007 00:31:14 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: kyPjtXwVM1ngQlLs1G5M1ZpaENYOdG.73xv8QNynGOZLoqaJi4fvTfIgQw848bQnICqo.UMXpQ-- Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <56e63e3aeb709b47fd86777b3c70fbfb@prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Mailing List From: jekillen Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:32:42 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: re Absolute FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:31:16 -0000 Hi: I have the book and am reading it. It suits me, in that docs and man pages can be intimidating and hard to translate into some thing useful (for me). The one thing about books like this is that there are a lot more in the way of theory and tutorial practice. I could not expect anyone to give me specific instruction on the situations I encounter and have to engineer my way through, but analogous tutorial, or at least vaguely comparable descriptions can prime the inductive and deductive logic process. I work alone, as a hobbyist and spend a god awful lot on fat paperbacks. The investment is worth it to me. And the Lucas books hit the spot. I am reading about NanoBSD. That is the first time I heard of it. I started with FreeBSD 6.0 and the books up to that point, including the first Absolute BSD only covered 5x, so I am anxious to get up to current status. True, as some of the responses to this subject have said, at some point you would or should grow beyond needing to have books at hand. But with webmastering, hostmastering, learning shells, postmastering, general system admin, programming, there is A LOT of ground to cover. To cover it all fast enough and be good enough not to need a book occasionally, I think is a little in the realm of delusion. My two cents Jeff K